Urgent and important because I have to layout 5 volumes with near 1000 cross-references

That would really help to save resources, i.e. working time.

Oh yes, please. I’m working on a ~240 page document with a ton of cross references, and every.single.click results in a spinning beach ball. As Jeremy posted, whenever you click on a cross reference that became disconnected, that may result in a multi-minute-wait for the dialogue to open*. It drives me nuts.

*Possible workaround: What’s really slow is cross references to a paragraph (in big documents). Try using anchors instead. Still, whenever a cross reference is broken, do not click on this reference first. Select a working cross reference. Be sure it’s one connected to a text anchor. *Then* choose the broken one. This will open the dialogue instantly. Otherwise, the dialogue will open with "paragraph" pre-selected and that one takes forever. If the dialogue opens with "text anchor" pre-selected it opens instantly and you then can swtch over to "paragraph" if necessary, that will - for whatever reason -work without any lag. However, this workaraound only avoids the posible waiting time for the cr-dialogue window to open. It does not change the sluggish performance of the document itself.

Would be really helpful!

When a link has become disconnected and needs to be updated if you choose cross reference options to relink it, it can take ages to get to Cross-reference options window (several minutes) Instead copy and paste a live link into dead link and choose Cross-reference options and then the window opens immediately and you can then relink.

Ah yes, four years after the thread began, the issue remains. Another workaround I found is to keep ALL my documents in the book open. What a pain!!

Some documents requite an intricate workflow of disconnecting drives and renaming folders, then trying to stitch it all back together when you are ready... a real headache.

Disable "live-update" of cross-references is a work around. It's how it handles cross-references that needs to be fixed.

Cross references are great and work great, but the lag is impossible especially on a network. Having to break the links is a workaround but it shouldn't be necessary, and of course if you're working on a network you're often working in a team and randomly having to rename folders that other people might be in... well that doesn't work well for obvious reasons. Please Adobe, I would call this a major feature since any sort of large book or catalog or manual is going to use cross-references and having a major feature be unusable due to poor optimization or an inability to disable one of its features is crippling.

Why does Adobe ignore this?

Yes, please! I have been trying to update a document with cross references for 4.5 hours. I want so badly to just shut the dang things off. I can't do anything else with these things in the document. I will never ever ever use them again.

God yes! Is there no solution still (writing this 01 / 2021) ?
My file is not very big but working remotely the constant updating is killing me.

Agreed this is critical - it's almost impossible to author large documents with cross-references as currently designed. Makes me want to go back to FrameMaker!

This feature is really necessary when you are working on a document which cross references a lot of other documents.

YES! I have a much smaller file (only6 MB), around 50 pages and has only a few dozen cross references, it is not not workable. InDesign totally locks up. I have to out the working file in separate folder away from all the other chapters, then change the folder name where the other chapters are stored. This temporarily breaks all the cross references so I can navigate through the file I'm trying to edit.

Please enable the capability to disable live updates on page cross-references to their InDesign app. This could greatly increase efficiency on several projects.

This would be of tremendous help to me as well. I work with many docs and have thousands of cross-references. The live update is very, very time consuming - time that I don't have. Hinders more than helps!!

Same here . . . the amount of time for the live update is exhausting and very frustrating. Please allow an option for this to be disabled.

This would be of tremendous help to me as well. I work with many docs and have thousands of cross-references. The live update is very, very time consuming - time that I don't have.

Here is my solution to that: http://indesignsecrets.com/put-your-book-documents-on-a-time-out-for-bad-behavior.php I move the file I'm working on into it's own folder and name the main folder where the other documents reside.